Wednesday, September 19, 2007

GOD IS DEAD, ALIVE GOD (a post-human).

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=IHRkMcVrt2w

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=vBC5L6cyq2Y

Although Richard Dawkins(66, ethólogist and theoretical evolutionary British: The God Delusion that puts in trial the basements of religions and the existence of God), last book appeared at the end of 2006, the different presentations, discussions and interviews that it raises from then on evoke attractive reeditions. Of them impact 2 videos (interviews: 1 to a evangelical fundamentalist and to 1 Muslim), favorable to the skeptical posture of Dawkins. I) in the first chapter, apart from discrediting the reasons of the existence of God, Dawkins explains the mental abuse exercised by religions against children, a cruel religious indoctrination carried out to early age, sustaining rather that all boy should be cosmopolitan and endowed with a solid individual opinion. The fact that certain children see in the nature, beautiful natural laws (Newton, Darwin, Einstein) and other miracles or, the hand of God, will raise in them different visions. For Dawkins the religion forms mentally limited children. In the conceptual plane, many children don't understand why good people will have to go to the hell for the single crime of being skeptical or atheists. In the documentary "Jesus Camp" (camp of evangelical summer), Dawkins describes American children trained to be soldiers of God, fighting battles with copies of true weapons. Children raised to adults this way, will become clones of the evangelical Pat Robertsonthat sustains that New Orleans was flooded because God wanted to punish homosexuals. For Dawkins it is possible that the advantages of the principle of obedience to the parents are able to elaborate in the time a Christian-jew God: loving and at the same time: thirsty blood, unjust, vengeful, misogynist, homophobic, megalomaniac, sadomasochistic.

II) But where the sable of Dawkins cut with effectiveness is in the argument that God doesn't exist. Being in the age of the reason religions cannot be accepted if they don´t show evidences, although are able to almost explain any thing. The arguments included those of minds as Sacred Tomás of Aquino, are imaginative but lack evidences. When the religions pondering the perfection of the world assume a God, Dawkins asks: where does he came?. The ontologic argument, argue that God exists because he is perfect. According to reason, Something, cannot proceed from Nothing. Assuming to God like an extraordinarily complex entity, their strange conformation (discarded according to probabilístic laws), is impossible. When the religion assumes an perfect universe thanks to the grace of God, Dawkins, assumes it but well, as product of chance. The theoretical physics (quantic), postulates the existence of millions of universes(imperfect most of them for harbor life), existing inhabitable single 1 or 2 of them (perfect). For this rarity it is not necessary the presence of a Great Designer, it can happen as a result of an enormous miracle of the nature, that is to say the same hypothesis of God. Finally, seemingly inexplicable phenomena (origin of matter or conscience), don't mean that they necessarily have to be work of God. It is illogical. Before the question of why religions count with so many faithful, Dawkins argues that certain religious postulates, look like memes (ideas) or, successful virus. A meme that says: you will survive your own death is very attractive (because there are a lot of people that fears to death), they like the idea that faith is more virtuous than reason. III) many assume that religious are people with more ethical, happiness, transcendent and healthy. The certain thing is that slavery, many labor and gender rights have not been elaborated by religions, but for current civilized societies. According to Dawkins, the atheism offers perspectives for a purely scientific, more fair, happy and balanced society, adding that the immense majority of scientists has been atheistic, included Einstein. Dawkins says that there are few atheists in prison. IV) For Dawkins, the religion has taken place more damage than well. To believe in God is pernicious, because their precepts are not of survival: it has spilled out a lot of blood for him.